Quotes 3841 till 3860 of 10591.
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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research.
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If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works -
If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
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If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.
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If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
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If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
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If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
Het leven van Pi p.11 -
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
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If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
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